Ironworks
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Ironworks is a noun meaning plural of ironwork.
Meaning
plural of ironwork.
More Meanings
- A factory in which iron is manufactured or iron goods are made.
Example Sentences
Many of its cottages were built for quarrymen when local workings provided limestone for the great 19th-century ironworks at Nantyglo.
But, like more than one similar North Wales beauty-spot, there had to be (at least at the time of which I write), a quarry, or ironworks, or some kind of industrial plant, which lay perpetually under a cloud of yellowish smoke—literally a blot on the landscape.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include castings, forges, smelters, metalworks, tinworks, ironware.
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